Fraternal meeting places

Usage examples of lodges.

The Lodges were memorialized here, but not one of them was buried below.

Rather than a single large, sod-covered, semisubterranean longhouse that Ayla had likened to a cave or even a human-sized burrow, in this Camp several individual round lodges were clustered together on the terrace.

Two of the lodges each supported a crowd of onlookers,, and though the watchers had turned their attention to the visitors, that was not the reason they were up on the rounded roofs.

Protected by steep walls, a half-dozen separate round lodges in a row were comfortably settled within the nearly mile-long hollow.

As they walked together toward the permanent lodges of Wolf Camp, Ayla noticed a denser concentration of tents and Camps, and many more people milling around between them.

By the time Deegie and Ayla had brought the children to the lodges in the center of the Camp, word had gone on ahead, and a group of women were waiting.

A young man ran into one of the lodges, and soon Valez emerged, holding several straps of leather.

Figures darted out of the lodges, only to be clubbed or slashedd own or run through with ready lances.

Such stones, the Unam chieftain had observed, were constandy being floated down to the huge stone lodges at the Falling Water Place.

Man on a Horse had seen some of their light-colored scalps in the lodges of his grandfathers.

It was not the gate the warriors had entered, but it was a gap between the lodges and overlooking the river.

As he galloped down the curve of the hill then, he saw the dome roofs of the lodges, and the palisade, and the scaffolds of the burial ground.

The litde round hide-covered bullboats and the toboggans that the people kept on their roofs when not using them were being blown over and around the lodges and some bounced into the river.

There was nothing unusual to be seen up there, just the usual clusters of low, domed lodges under wisps of windblown wood smoke.

Then Four Bears climbed with him to the roof of the Medicine Lodge, and for a while they stood together, gazing over the parched plains and the faraway hills that faded to blue in the shimmering air of the distance, over the great, gray, curving river, the dome roofs of the other lodges all around him, thep alisades, the scaffolds of the dead beyond them.